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StumbleUpon has the ability to drive a huge amount of traffic (up to 20,000 visitors for popular articles) to your website and can be a very valuable marketing tool.

It is a thriving community of over 4.4m users who rate and categorise web pages before sharing them via the StumbleUpon toolbar.

This guide will help you make the most of it without the risk of upsetting the community.

Online auction giant eBay has confirmed today that it has acquired StumbleUpon, the browsing application that recommends websites to its users, in a deal worth $75m (£38m).

The purchase of StumbleUpon had been rumoured for a few months, with the recommendation site experiencing impressive growth (of 150%) over the past year. It now has more than 2.4m registered users, with 5m recommendations daily.

Auction site eBay is reportedly close to concluding a deal to buy StumbleUpon, a browsing application which helps users discover new sites.

The Wall Street Journal reports that the deal will be worth around $75m (£37.6m), though completion may take a few weeks yet. A similar rumour was reported back in April.

StumbleUpon, a browsing application which recommends websites to its users, is rumoured to be an acquisition target for online auction behemoth eBay.

According to TechCrunch, an unnamed source says that StumbleUpon will be acquired for between $40m and $75m (£20m-£37m).  

StumbleUpon yesterday announced the launch of a new video service that will offer viewers a selection of videos from YouTube, Google Video and MySpace, based on their personal preferences.

StumbleUpon has until now been known for a browsing application which helps Web users discover sites based on the ratings of users with similar tastes. It is now applying the same idea to video. And it's pretty cool.